1993 UEFA Champions League final
The 1993 UEFA Champions League final was a football match between French club Marseille and Italian club Milan, played on 26 May 1993 at the Olympiastadion in Munich.
| Event | 1992–93 UEFA Champions League | ||||||
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| Date | 26 May 1993 | ||||||
| Venue | Olympiastadion, Munich | ||||||
| Referee | Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland) | ||||||
| Attendance | 64,444[1] | ||||||
The final, which followed the second-ever UEFA Champions League group stage, saw Ivorian-born Marseille defender Basile Boli score the only goal of the match in the 43rd minute with a header to give l'OM their first European Cup title. It was the first time a French team had won the European Cup. No other French side – apart from Monaco-based AS Monaco, who play in the French league system – would reach the final until Paris Saint-Germain in 2020.
Marseille and their club president Bernard Tapie would later be found to have been involved in a match-fixing scandal during the 1992–93 season (in which Marseille allegedly paid Valenciennes to lose a match), which saw them relegated to Division 2 and banned from participation in European football for the following season. As the scandal affected only French league matches, Marseille's status as 1993 European champion was not affected.
The first Champions League final turned out to be the last game of Milan's highly accomplished but injury-prone Dutch forward Marco van Basten, who was 28 at the time; having been subbed off in the 86th minute due to fatigue and yet another ankle injury, he would spend the next two years in recovery before announcing his retirement in August 1995.[2]
Teams
In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era, since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era.
| Team | Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners) |
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| Marseille | 1 (1991) |
| Milan | 5 (1958, 1963, 1969, 1989, 1990) |
Route to the final
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| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Glentoran | 8–0 | 5–0 (A) | 3–0 (H) | First round | Olimpija Ljubljana | 7–0 | 4–0 (H) | 3–0 (A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dinamo București | 2–0 | 0–0 (A) | 2–0 (H) | Second round | Slovan Bratislava | 5–0 | 1–0 (A) | 4–0 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opponent | Result | Group stage | Opponent | Result | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rangers | 2–2 (A) | Matchday 1 | IFK Göteborg | 4–0 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club Brugge | 3–0 (H) | Matchday 2 | PSV Eindhoven | 2–1 (A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CSKA Moscow | 1–1 (A) | Matchday 3 | Porto | 1–0 (A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CSKA Moscow | 6–0 (H) | Matchday 4 | Porto | 1–0 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rangers | 1–1 (H) | Matchday 5 | IFK Göteborg | 1–0 (A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club Brugge | 1–0 (A) | Matchday 6 | PSV Eindhoven | 2–0 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group A winner
Source: UEFA |
Final standings | Group B winner
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Match
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Aftermath
Marseille's triumph remains controversial due to accusations of doping alleged by Marcel Desailly, Jean-Jacques Eydelie, Chris Waddle and Tony Cascarino. According to Eydelie, "all (of them) took a series of injections" in the 1993 Champions League final, except Rudi Völler. Desailly and Cascarino claimed that club president Bernard Tapie distributed pills and injections himself. In an interview with French magazine Le Point, Jean-Pierre de Mondenard said Marseille had a blackboard in their team locker room that read "injections for everyone". Tapie only admitted that some players took captagon.[3][4][5][6]
See also
References
- "2. Finals" (PDF). UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook 2016/17. Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. 2017. p. 1. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
- "Oggi su 7 Marco van Basten: "Ho visto la depressione. Ma adesso sono sereno"". 28 February 2020.
- Weir, Christopher (30 October 2018). "The glory and the corruption of Marseille's kings of 1993, the team that conquered Europe". These Football Times. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- Kistner, Thomas (2015). Schuss. Die geheime Dopinggeschichte des Fußballs. Droemer. p. 62. ISBN 978-3-426-27652-5. OCLC 948696330.
- Oberschelp, Malte; Theweleit, Daniel (12 April 2006). "Doping im Fußball: "Schärfer und hungriger"". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- Décugis, Jean-Michel (17 November 2010). "DOPAGE DANS LE FOOTBALL - Mondenard : "Les footballeurs sont de grands malades"". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 23 September 2022.
- Dixon, James (2020). The Fix: How the first Champions League was won and why we all lost. Pitch. ISBN 9781785317781.